Get customize research and advises to achieve your mission-critical R&D goals

R&D Heads, Open Innovation Managers, Tech Scouts use NorthStar for understanding the ecosystem, finding appropriate whitespace, tapping new technologies and trends, M&A opportunities, etc.

Get customize research and advises to achieve your mission-critical R&D goals

R&D Heads, Open Innovation Managers, Tech Scouts use NorthStar for understanding the ecosystem, finding appropriate whitespace, tapping new technologies and trends, M&A opportunities, etc.

Get curated technical information and analytics based
decision support to make decisive business-centric R&D decisions

Get Curated Insights

Make the right decisions fast with  technical information free from data noise

Accelerate Problem Solving

Do cross-industry innovation, find an opportunity for collaboration, M&A, and get competitive insights to find workable solutions

Find Important Answers

How to judge industry collaboration initiatives?
What type of research initiatives should be funded?
How to find technology that solves our industry problem?

Get curated technical information and analytics based decision support to make decisive business-centric R&D decisions

Get Curated Insights

Make the right decisions fast with  technical information free from data noise

Accelerate Problem Solving

Do cross-industry innovation, find an opportunity for collaboration, M&A, and get competitive insights to find workable solutions

Find Important Answers

How to judge industry collaboration initiatives?
What type of research initiatives should be funded?
How to find technology that solves our industry problem?

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Be Among the First to Market

Have an edge on other players by arming your R&D team with data that help detect early breakthroughs and commercially promising technologies.

Do Cross-Industry Innovation

Video console gave BMW an inspiration to come up with iDrive system. Nike found idea for Shox shoes from Formula One racing. If you want to find ideas from other industry to implement in yours, NorthStar can help.

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Stay on The Top of R&D Activities of Your Domain

Monitor R&D activities of your domain using the weekly insights provided by NorthStar. You will not only get R&D intelligence on players of your domain but of non-player as well if they are trying to break into your domain.

Find Collaboration and M&A Opportunities

Find companies and universities for collaboration. Get insight on non-core companies having required tech knowledge that you can use.

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Do Kernel Tech Scouting

NorthStar offers you a new way to scout technologies, Kernel Scouting, that falls at the intersection of outsourced and in-house tech scouting approaches.

first-to-market

Be Among the First to Market

Have an edge on other players by arming your R&D team with data that help detect early breakthroughs and commercially promising technologies.

do-cross-industry-innovation

Do Cross-Industry Innovation

Video console gave BMW an inspiration to come up with iDrive system. Nike found idea for Shox shoes from Formula One racing. If you want to find ideas from other industry to implement in yours, NorthStar can help.

stay-on-the-top-of-rd-activities

Stay on The Top of R&D Activities of Your Domain

Monitor R&D activities of your domain using the weekly insights provided by NorthStar. You will not only get R&D intelligence on players of your domain but of non-player as well if they are trying to break into your domain.

find-collaboration-and-ma-opportunities

Find Collaboration and M&A Opportunities

Find companies and universities for collaboration. Get insight on non-core companies having required tech knowledge that you can use.

kernel-tech-scouting

Do Kernel Tech Scouting

NorthStar offers you a new way to scout technologies, Kernel Scouting, that falls at the intersection of outsourced and in-house tech scouting approaches.

Where do we fit in the R&D LifeCycle?

Whether you are developing a new product (Like a) or process, enhancing existing product or Technology, or are creating a new product technology platform, NorthStar can help in multiple phases.

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  • Problem-driven technology and investment evaluation
  • Investigation of technological and market trends
  • Forecast of available technologies
  • Evaluation of market & competitive intelligence
  • Identify technologies with commercial potential and drive industry partnerships
  • Freedom to Operate or Rights to Manufacture Analysis
  • Identification of changes due to market requirements
  • Detection of opportunities for patenting and standardization
  • Identification of the possibility of new product development
  • Tuning details for product improvement in its second generation
  • Identify the most effective ways to ensure the best use of intellectual property rights
  • Knowledge exploitation for the next stage

Where do we fit in the R&D LifeCycle?

Whether you are developing a new product (Like a) or process, enhancing existing product or Technology, or are creating a new product technology platform, NorthStar can help in multiple phases.

[Stage-1] Initial scoping
  • Problem-driven technology and investment evaluation
  • Investigation of technological and market trends
  • Forecast of available technologies
  • Evaluation of market & competitive intelligence
  • Identify technologies with commercial potential and drive industry partnerships
[Stage-2] Project Specification
[Stage-3] Detailed Planing
[Stage-4] Implementation Stage
  • Freedom to Operate or Rights to Manufacture Analysis
  • Identification of changes due to market requirements
  • Detection of opportunities for patenting and standardization
[Stage-5] Completion
[Stage-6] Post-project evaluation stage
  • Identification of the possibility of new product development
  • Tuning details for product improvement in its second generation
  • Identify the most effective ways to ensure the best use of intellectual property rights
  • Knowledge exploitation for the next stage

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